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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children did Assunta and Salvatore have?
(a) Four.
(b) None.
(c) Two.
(d) Eight.

2. What simile is used to describe Salvatore's hands while he bathes his children?
(a) Like sandpaper.
(b) Like flowers.
(c) Like cold stones.
(d) Like buzzing bees.

3. How does the narrator describe Salvatore's manners after marrying Assunta and moving to their home?
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Barbaric.
(c) Peasant-like.
(d) Aristocratic.

4. What rare quality does the narrator say he was trying to paint a portrait of in his story "Salvatore"?
(a) Goodness.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Evil.
(d) Courage.

5. What did Salvatore do for work when he was not fishing after he married and had children?
(a) Cooked for a wealthy family.
(b) Rode a horse and buggy.
(c) Taught school.
(d) Worked on his father's vineyard.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Assunta described physically?

2. With whom did Salvatore fish with on his boat in the evenings during fishing season?

3. What did foreigners say about Italian fishermen when they saw Salvatore on the beach?

4. What does Assunta seem always to by touched by regarding Salvatore?

5. What does Salvatore tell his mother about Assunta?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Salvatore's fiancé tell him "with the blunt directness of her race" (5) when he went to see her at her home after he returned rom military service?

2. Why does Salvatore understand that the girl he loves will not marry him?

3. What would Salvatore do if his rheumatism became too bad for him to work?

4. What did Salvatore do for work after he and Assunta married?

5. Describe Salvatore washing his babies near the end of the story?

6. How did Salvatore's family learn he was not going to marry the girl he loved?

7. What happened to Assunta's fiancé?

8. Though Salvatore found Assunta physically unattractive, what could she offer him if they married?

9. How is Assunta described after she and Salvatore marry? What does she look like? What type of person is she?

10. What does the narrator say he set out to do in the story?

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